Duterte, who has made lewd remarks against the US, its former president Barack Obama and several others, received 5% of the total “yes” votes.

Controversial Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte won the Time magazine’s readers’ poll of the 100 most influential people in the world, while Prime Minister Narendra Modi did not garner any votes in the online survey.

Duterte had consistently led the Time 100 Reader Poll, an online survey in which the publication had asked its readers to vote for who should be included in this year’s Time 100 list of the world’s most influential people.

Duterte, who has made lewd remarks against the US, its former president Barack Obama and several others, received 5% of the total “yes” votes in the poll which closed midnight on Sunday.

Modi had been named among the probable contenders for the annual list of the most influential people in the world.

However, Modi had not garnered any “yes” votes at the close of the voting, with the polls showing he had got “zero percent” votes along with other contenders such as Microsoft’s India-born CEO Satya Nadella, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, White House press secretary Sean Spicer and US President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner.

Trump garnered 2% of votes.

Modi had been named among the magazine’s probable contenders in last year’s Time 100 list also. He was named by Time editors among the 100 most influential people in the world in 2015 and Obama had written a profile for him for the magazine.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
(PTI Photo)

Time said since taking office in June, Duterte has waged an aggressive war on drugs that has killed more than 8,000 people in the Philippines and his controversial anti-drug campaign has inspired growing opposition from human rights groups and some political leaders, including Philippine Vice President Leni Robredo.

Closely following Duterte in the Time 100 poll were Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Pope Francis, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg  all of whom received three per cent of the total “yes” votes.